Imagine a creature straight from your darkest nightmares. A face so grotesque, so utterly alien, it defies belief, haunting the very shadows of the African night. This is the hammer-headed bat, and ...

Baobabs are sometimes called "upside-down trees," because their branches look like roots reaching skyward. Of the eight species of baobab in the world, six are confined to Madagascar, one to northern ...

Straw-coloured fruit bats love fruits above everything, for example date palms and mangos – or, as in this case, sugar plums c). However, they do not eat the whole fruit, but press out the juice and ...

Researchers recently investigated hammer-headed bat populations in southern Cameroon. The mixed-methods investigation was conducted in mature rainforest, where these massive, bizarre-looking bats ...

Introduction. Geographical scope ; Classification and taxonomy ; Conservation status -- Museum collections and pioneering researchers. Researcher gallery ; The value of specimens ; Chiroptera ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An uplisting isn’t a headline-grabbing label. It’s the science catching up to whether the risk to the mammals has worsened or not, ...

Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified active circulation of Marburg virus in bat colonies for the first time in Sierra Leone, according to a study ...